The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-09-22

W udIIy tHe IIlduu1dCluTorS, anu lou OF
arbitrators to push themselves into other
peoples affairs"
Replying to the Post, the New York Star
asks some questions which it will be hard
to answer. 1t asks: Why should not wage
earners be told by the State what are the
profits OF capital, and be thereby informed
what should be the share of labor? Why
should not factory operatives, whose bal
lots have aided to levy protective taxes in
order Gas the factory lord says to raise
wages, be enabled to know how the taxes
work!
INall his speeches and writings the great
South Carolina statesman, John G. Cal
houn never made but one quotation. 1t
was: 'Timeo danaos ct dana ferentes. "
If he was now in the flesh, we doubt not
that he would repeat the quotation in ref
erence to Ben. Buffers advocacy of a plan
to pension the Confederate soldiers. We
fear Benjamin. When he offers us a gift,
it is hardly to be supposed that he is
moved by good intentions. Before the war
most brilliant and most treacherous of men,
and ought always to be watched. The South
will not fall into his scheme to pension the
Confederate soldiers-the horse is full of
armed men.
The railroads have given the low rate of
one cent mile to all who attend the Fair
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to be there, and the railroads have wisely
put their rates down to a low figure in Or
der to insure a tremendous crowd.
On the 27th of October, during the Rich
mond Fair, the statue TO the peerless Lee
is to be unveiled. There arc hundreds of
old soldiers, and others, in North Carroll
ma who desire to witness that ceremony
and thus pay tribute to the memory Of
1.-The foremost man. of the Civil War. The
railroads ought to give the same low rate
to Richmond as to Atlanta. The CHRONI-
Gle hopes they will do it SO that all who
desire to attend may not be deferred be-
cause of the high rates.
Mr. JAMES BARRON HOPE is dead. Poet,
editor, political economist, he held high
place among the ablest and best sons of
the Old Dominion. He was lawyer by
education, but journalism and literary
pursuits were more to his taste. He found
ed the Norfolk Landmark in 1878, and
while it was not, under his management,
the equal, in news point OF view, Of
some other Southern journals, it had a
literary and scholarly favor that made it
prime favorite with thoughtful men. 1t
was as a poet that Mr.. Hope was most
widely known. His first public success in
this dine was his ode in 1853 upon the un-
yelling of the equestrian statue of George
Washington In 1881 this writer heard
him read his celebrated poem delivered
upon the occasion of the Yorktown Cen
tennial. 1t was a poem Of great merit,
and its beauty was enhanced by the charm
of its delivery. The poets eye in fine
phrensy rolling looked out upon the vast
sea of upturned faces, and with the senti
ment Of the poem burning in his heart, the
poet delivered his poem of ''Welcome -
Thrice Welcome to France, with an effect
We we have never seen equalled. He was
almost an orator in the delivery of his own
poems. The last poetic work of his life
was the dedicato~y poem, which he had
prepared to read at the unveiling of the
Lee monument in Richmond next month.
Another will read the poem, and it will
be, in some sense, memorial of the gen
tie and talented James Barron Hope.
WITH Capt. O. +. Smith at the helm we
could roll the State House from Raleigh to
Durham in a short tim - Durham Re-
corder.
No paper in the State rejoices more in
the growth, push and enterprise Of Dur
great town full of men of great purposes.
1t has recently voted $3.50, 900 to secure
railroads to Lynchburg, Clarksville and
Henderson, and voted these subscriptions
with hardly dissenting voice. This shows
pluck and confidence in the future of the
embryonic city. The CHRONICLE is econ
stant'' in "the joy" of Durham, and it
hopes and believes that the present large
volume of business of the town is but an
earnest of what it is to be in the near fu-
ture No man rejoices more than this writer
in everything that Durham does that shows
grit, pluck and progress. But we must
caution our Durham friends not to put on
too many airs Chey have right to strut
scmeD-and to remember that Durham is
not the only town in the State in which
there is healthy growth. 1t is doing noble
things right royalty; but for a that, 1t
isn't the only place in North Carolina that
is moving forward. We will grant to Dur
ham more of business pluck than most
places, but we will not grant its right to
the State House. Don't be in too big
hurry, Durhamities! You are doing nobly.
You are getting many things-(and you
deserve all you get, and moreD but don't
covet the earth.
Nichols Will Never Have Another Chance
from Statesville Landmark
Mr.. John Nichols, being an old printer
and newspaper man, should have had more
sense than to have monkeyed with buzz
saw. He will never have chance to give
another son cadetship, and he will never
limo or